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ensued, which lasted till night, separated the com-batants. The number killed on both sides was great,but the Colquhouns sustained the greatest loss. Thelaird of Colquhoun escaped, and retired to a strongcastle on the banks of an adjoining lake, closely pur-sued by a party of the enemy, who broke into thecastle, and found him in a vault, where they put himto a cruel death. Besides this atrocity, the M'Gregorsperpetrated many other acts of barbarity, amongwhich may be mentioned the massacre of severalyoung gentlemen, who stationed themselves on aneighbouring hill to see the battle. In the even-ing they shut themselves in a barn for safety,but the M'Gregors discovering them, more thaneighty were slain. One of the survivors of theColquhouns, who was now become their chief, sup-plicated the assistance and protection of James VI.against this lawless clan; and, in order to excite thecompassion of that monarch, he carried with him anumber of women, eacli of whom displayed a bloodygarment of some relation or friend who had beenmurdered by the M‘Gregors. On account of thesecruelties, the clan of M'Gregor was proscribed as“lawless Hmmers or villains',” their name was to befor ever abolished ; and at baptism no clergyman wasto give it, under the penalty of banishment and de-privation. These enactments continued in force tilllate in the last century, when the outlawry wasreversed.

Fruitbearing Society, or Order of Palms. Asociety founded in 1617, at the castle of Weimar, byKaspar Von Teutleben, governor of the youngprince John Ernest, having for its object the pre-servation and restoration of the purity of the Germanlanguage, which was in danger of losing all its pecu-liarities by the introduction of foreign words andidioms. Five German princes took part in itsfoundation ; three dukes of Weimer, and two princesof Anhalt. The society numbered also CharlesGustavus, king of Sweden, among its members.. Itwas organised in a great measure like the Italianacademies ; for example, in order to avoid all dis-putes about precedency, and-to make all the membersequal, a name was given to each one, which he wasobliged to use in the society. The German language,although their efforts were in a great measure unsuc-cessful, yet owes much to them. Some of the wordsfirst formed by this society, as, for instance, gegemtand(object), have passed into the language ; while others,formed at the same time, as unterstand. (subject), havenever come into use. The society continued downto 1680, and had always a sovereign for its president.There was a good deal of pedantry attending it.

Fcegos Isle. A small island about forty miles incircumference, one of the most southerly of thePhilippines. Lon. 123° 25' E., lat. 9° 25' N.

Fulalee. The name of a small branch of theIndus, which it rejoins in latitude 25° 9' N., a fewmiles below Hyderabad, the capital of the provinceof Sinde.

Ascending the Fulalee from its junction with theIndus up to Hyderabad, it winds so much, that,although the direct distance by land is not more thanfourteen miles, the route by water is not less thantwenty-four miles. The depth of water in this partof the route, during the month of August, is fromfour to six fathoms, and there are many villagesscattered on each side of the river. It is generallyunderstood, that f.e Fulalee, at some distance toi

the north of Hyderabad, communicates with theIndus, forming an island of the country round thecity of Hyderabad. This island, named Gungah,near the banks of the river, is in many places wellcultivated, which is also the case with the oppositeside.

Fulda. Formerly a bishopric and principality olGermany, in the circle of the Upper Rhine ; boundednorth by Hesse-Cassel, east by the county of Hen-neberg, south by the bishopric of Wurzburg, andwest by the principality of Isenburg and Hesse;about forty miles in length, and from seven to twenty-five in breadth. The country is mountainous andwoody, with some rich arable lands, and several ex-cellent medicinal springs. When the secularisationof the ecclesiastical principalities of the German em-pire took place, it was ceded to Orange-Nassau, thento the grand duke of Frankfort. In 1814 it was divided;and a district, containing 27,000 inhabitants, was givento Saxe-Weimer, and the rest to Prussia. Prussiaceded her portion to Hesse-Cassel, which now forms agrand duchy belonging to the latter government.

Fulham. A populous village, in the county ofMiddlesex. It is built on the banks of the riverThames, which is here crossed by a wooden bridge.The bishop of London has a palace in this village,surrounded by extensive grounds, and the gardenscontain a great variety of rare and valuable plants,all of which are in a state of high cultivation. Thepopulation, according to the last parliamentary re-turns, amounts to rather more than 17,000 persons;and the annual value of the real property to .£28,551.Fulham is four miles from London.

Fulta. A considerable town in the province ofBengal, situated on the east bank of the riverHooghly, twenty miles S.S.W. in a straight directionfrom Calcutta, but much more by the windings of theriver. The anchorage here is safe, ships being pro-tected from the swell of the sea. The bottom is astiff clay, in which the anchors hold so fast that it isdifficult to weigh them. Lon. 88° 20' E.,lat. 22° 19' N.

Funchal, or Funchial. A sea-port and capitalof the island of Madeira. The harbour is defendedby several batteries and a castle. The streets arenarrow, and the city is irregularly built. Some of thehouses are neat, and the windows sashed with lath-work, but with openings wide enough for those withinto see and be seen. The principal trade of the inha-bitants consists in wine, which the English residentsship to this country and India.

. Fcndy, Bay of. A bay of North America,between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, extendingabout 200 miles in a N.E. direction. It is twelveleagues across from St. John's, New Brunswick, tothe Gut of Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Here the tidesrise thirty feet. In the basin of Minas, the easternarm of the bay, the tides rise forty feet; and at thehead of the north-eastern arm, called ChigneetoChannel, they rise sixty feet. These tides are so rapidas to overtake animals feeding on the shore.

Funen, or Fyen. An island of Denmark, at theentrance of the Baltic, nearly of an oval form, withsome irregularities, extending from N. to S. aboutthirty-five miles, and from E. to W. about thirty.It has a population of 112,000 persons. It is a fertileand pleasant island. Most of the Danish nobilityhave seats here. The soil yields great crops of corn,so that nearly 100,000 barrrels are exported annuallyto Norway and Sweden, exclusive of the consumption